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3 days ago |
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Evan Nesterak
Scaling three-story rope ladders up the sides of ships, memorizing every rock and current in a harbor, and narrowly avoiding catastrophic collisions with Captain Grant Livingstone, a retired harbor pilot. What do you do when your engine and anchors fail in heavy fog? And how do you dock a ship the size of the Empire State Building? Grant and his twin brother Captain George Livingstone co-authored the recent book Shiphandling, The Beautiful Game.
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3 days ago |
behavioralscientist.org | Evan Nesterak
Last year was the hottest on record. For the first time, the annual average global temperature pierced the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set by the Paris Agreement a decade earlier. That threshold was established by the 195 nations that signed the agreement in 2015 in an attempt to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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1 week ago |
behavioralscientist.org | Barry Schwartz |Evan Nesterak
Years of research in psychology have taught us how important it is for well-being to live in a world in which we can predict and control the things that matter. As Martin Seligman, among others, has shown, lack of predictability produces anxiety, and lack of control produces helplessness. Being able to control events in our lives means we can predict them (if you do X, Y will happen; if you flip the switch, the light will go on).
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behavioralscientist.org | Heather Graci |Evan Nesterak
International aid looks nothing like it did six months ago. Emergency food assistance sits in abandoned warehouses. Health workers who administered life-saving treatment were there one day, gone the next. People who relied on the United States for food and medicine are weaker and sicker, and some are already dead.
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1 month ago |
behavioralscientist.org | Michael Hallsworth |Evan Nesterak
A decade is a long time in behavioral science. Since the Behavioural Insights Team was established in the U.K. government in 2010, I’ve seen new units, debates, and techniques spread across the globe at breakneck speed. The field is much broader and stronger now than it was when we began, thanks to skill, effort, and painful reckonings. So when, late last year, I turned to revisit and update the EAST framework, I felt a bit apprehensive.
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